12:33 AM,
Nov. 25, 2012

A house on 82nd Street in the Brant Beach section of Long Beach Township, washed into its neighbor by superstorm Sandy's waves.

Written by

Nicholas Huba
and Kirk Moore

Thanks to a line of recently erected two-story-high sand dunes, Harvey and Phyllis Karan's $1.7 million oceanfront house, and the town, stood fast when Sandy stormed ashore.

Sandy is long gone, but another storm is raging in this small borough of 1,200 homes, one that could swamp taxpayers on every barrier island in the state by adding tens of millions of dollars to the cost of building dunes.

The Karans are demanding that the town pay them $375,000 for damaging their ocean view. How? By building the dune in front of their house, the very dune that officials say saved their property from Sandy ...

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